The Divide's A Lie
Lyrics
In our celebration we oppress half of the nation Other side of the divide celebrates the other side's demise Neither wants to look inside, separate the truth from lies Yeah that's the true divide and it's contagious The divide's a lie, told you a thousand times Do I really have to go and tell you again? Only separation is in your head Ain't no line, oh we must combine Do I really gotta say it in a thousand ways? Only separation is the one you make The divide's a lie, the divide is a lie With our nomination (because your vote matters) We perpetuate a myth (ha!) Power pushers contemplate and there's so much at stake Yet they're no deeper than the skin All I ask is take a dive into the depths of why There's such a deep divide, a separation The divide's a lie, told you a thousand times Do I really have to go and tell you again? Only separation is in your head Ain't no line, oh we must combine Do I really gotta say it in a thousand ways? Only separation is the one you make The divide's a lie, the divide is a lie Relinquish these lines, lines you see Only then will we all, all be free It's a lie-lie-lie-lie The divide-vide-vide-vide What you seek you will find But nobody's seeking high It's a lie-lie-lie The divide-vide-vide What you're seeking ain't to fly And all I'm asking you is why? The divide's a lie, told you a thousand times (oh why?) Do I really have to go and tell you again? Only separation is in your head (why ain't you seeking to fly?) Ain't no line, oh we must combine (the divide's a lie) Do I really gotta say it in a thousand ways? (oh) Only separation is the one you make (come on and cross that line) The divide's a lie, the divide is a lie (no divide, oh my, that's right) Relinquish these lines, lines you see Only then will we all, all be free The divide oh it's a lie, the divide oh it's a lie (only then will we all be free) The divide oh it's a lie, the divide oh it's a lie The divide oh it's a lie, the divide oh it's a lie (please believe) The divide oh it's a lie, the divide oh it's a lie
About This Song
Direct challenge to manufactured social and political division, naming separation as an internal illusion and calling for collective unity and freedom.
The Divide's A Lie installs the conviction that the lines between people are something the mind manufactures, not a fact of the world. It asks you to treat the loudest political and social splits as a shared illusion, and to read the people who profit from the split as working an angle rather than telling a truth.
You start to hold separation more lightly and to look for the common ground underneath the labels. The pull toward us-against-them loosens, and a steadier sense of shared belonging grows in its place, widening from your own circle toward a feeling that the line was never really there to begin with.
Across a population, The Divide's A Lie installs the program that social and political separation is a manufactured illusion and that the deepest divide is the one people agree to keep believing in. A culture absorbs the call to dissolve the lines and to view those who profit from division as working a myth.
The symptoms surface as a growing appetite for common ground, a wariness toward leaders who trade on conflict, and a shared instinct to read the loudest splits as something chosen rather than fixed. A population leans toward combining over sorting, and toward treating unity as the natural state and division as the thing to relinquish.
What is the song “The Divide's A Lie” by Chad Lewine about?
This song was my total withdrawing of the two-party political system. At least, that's what inspired it. It's deeper than that, but the two-party system is a symptom of one of our core separations: that of the heart and the mind.
— Chad Lewine
